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The Emmy and Tony award-winning actress and singer is the Irene W. and C. B. Pennington Foundation Great Performer in Concert for 2017.

Chenoweth’s career spans film, television and stage. In 2015, she received a star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Chenoweth won the Emmy Award in 2009 for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role in “Pushing Daises.” In 1999, she won a Tony Award for “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown,” and she also was nominated for her role as the original Glinda the Good Witch in the first Broadway production of “Wicked.”

Chenoweth also was nominated for two Emmy Awards and for a People’s Choice Award in 2004 for her role on “Glee.” In 2009 she penned a candid, comedic chronicle of her life so far, “A Little Bit Wicked,” which was listed on the New York Times’ Hardcover Non Fiction Best Seller List.

This December, she will star in NBC’s “Hairspray Live!” as Velma Von Tussle.

On Sept. 23, Chenoweth released “The Art of Elegance,” her first album of American songbook classics via Concord Records. In November, she will return to the stage in “My Love Letter to Broadway,” a limited engagement at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.